suffragette
名词 n.
英 /ˌsʌf.ɹəˈd͡ʒɛt/
美 /ˌsʌf.ɹəˈd͡ʒɛt/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A female supporter, often militant, of women's right to vote in the early 20th century, especially in Great Britain.
— Perhaps no single location resonates for women’s rights campaigners today as much as Holloway, the first female-only prison, where militant suffragettes were incarcerated, went on hunger strike and were savagely force-fed.
词形变化
词源
From suffrage + -ette, first used as a derisive label by the Daily Mail in 1906, but eventually adopted by the WSPU itself.
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